Tag: trade

Washington, D.C.’s very swampy denizens have spent the last half-century-plus perpetrating a panoply of frauds against We the People. Perhaps the most Gaslight-y of them all – has been DCs fake free trade. We the People have watched DCs fake free trade – dispatch millions of our jobs and trillions of our dollars to everywhere […]

Most of the world is neither a friendly nor appreciative place. No matter what we in the United States do to help the rest of the planet – no matter how much for how many countries – we only continue to be hated and reviled. A lot of it is not our fault. Because human […]

I begin with a disclosure. The Wall Street Journal piece we will examine was penned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)’s Iain Murray. CEI is a fine organization. And I consider a great many of their people to be friends – including Murray. But Murray really misses the mark with Tuesday’s “Free-Marketeers Have Taken Social […]

One characteristic of humans – is we each view the world through our personal prism. Perfectly understandable – how else would we? But it can lead to difficulties. If you are an honest and honorable person – you tend to look at everyone else as being honest and honorable. You think “That’s how I would […]

President Donald Trump is rightly, reasonably trying to get the planets’ nations to stop robbing US blind. It’s been global sport for decades. We are the planet’s Super Suckers. We get robbed in a wide variety of ways. The net result of any and all of them? Hundreds of billions of dollars per year that […]

One hundred-plus countries engage each year in tens of trillions of dollars worth of global trade. Far too many nations engage in all sorts of anti-free trade actions – so as to warp the markets to their advantage. And when caught, far too many nations don’t stop their anti-free trade actions – they look for […]

Many countries – most especially Communist China – subsidize their domestic products that are then sold on the global market. This isn’t free trade. Some countries – most especially Communist China – intentionally subsidize to such an extent they sell their domestic products on the global market at a loss. This isn’t free trade. And […]

We didn’t win the (first) Cold War with Communist Russia – by handing them trillions of dollars. Embargoes and Sanctions – Cold War Sanctions: “In 1948, the United States began a campaign of economic sanctions against the Soviet Union that would last more than fifty years…. “For many years, the embargo on the Soviet Union […]

It is becoming more than a mite tiresome – dealing with the knee-jerk, talking-point-screeching alleged “free traders.” Who oppose President Donald Trump attempting to alter the ongoing, rolling nightmare mess that is this country’s global trade policy. The US has spent the last half-century-plus – cutting trade deals that cut our own throat. Nigh every […]

There seems to be a wide swath of the population – thankfully centered mostly in Washington, D.C. – that acts as if history started the day Donald J. Trump was sworn in as our 45th President. Chief among them – are the proponents of alleged “free trade.” In this, they are very much like the […]